Speed is everything on the digital shelf. With private labels from Amazon and digital upstarts launching daily with faster time-to-market strategies, traditional brands are losing market share they once easily captured. Brands deeming this an operational efficiency challenge, rather than the new reality of commerce will continue to see market share shrink as reducing time-to-market often means neglecting the change of consumers and retailer requirements.

To increase sales and grow market share on the digital shelf, winning brands focus on building a closed-loop capability for continuously optimizing the performance of their product experiences online. Take the example of ShurTech LLC, the makers of Duck® Tape, who leveraged the power of Product Experience Management to help them improve sales rank by 15% on Amazon in 4 months.

In the age of the digital consumer, brand manufacturers need their teams to work in close coordination to achieve success across the ecommerce ecosystem. But what’s the best way forward? Our co-founder Rob Gonzalez runs through how R&D, Brand, Trade and Supply Chain teams must operate closer than ever in our latest At The Whiteboard video.

Selling direct to consumer (D2C) can be profitable terrain for many manufacturers and brands—if done correctly. As companies set their own prices and don’t have to hand over a retailers’ cut, higher margins result.

Delivering the best-selling product pages on Amazon as a 1P (first-party seller), can often seem like an unending battle. In order for your product to maintain a high rank on SERPs (“search engine results pages”) you must master and balance a number of factors across your organization including product content and imagery, sales velocity, inventory levels, reviews, pricing, and more. We’ve introduced a new way for brands to monitor and act upon everything that helps them succeed on Amazon from a single dashboard: Amazon Command Center.

The March 2018 announcement closing of 800 Toys R Us stores around the country left many dismayed for a variety of reasons: nostalgia for childhood, confusion about how this could’ve happened to such a prominent retailer, and where does one shop for toys now? Most critically, how does this impact the sale of toys and baby items from now on? For brands in the toy and baby categories, it’s a pivotal moment to take control of their ecommerce distribution and create strong product experiences to grab the attention of the digital shopper.

Creating an effective digital content strategy is a mixture of digital elements. The rapid evolution of digital has meant that your e-commerce content strategy must work harder to help your product stand out from the rest of the market.

There isn't any question that e-commerce technologies continue to advance and factor strongly in how people buy things online. While Asia has become a leader in e-commerce, the U.S. is still a strong leader through businesses large and small. It's mobile technology where growth has really started to spike in e-commerce, and that's changed the marketing game for companies around the world.